Now that former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota has a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/38181/coleman-concedes-us-senate-contest"officially conceded the 2008 election/a and its legal challenges, which the Minnesota Supreme Court a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063002200.html"rejected/a earlier today, to Al Franken, now what? br /br /(And, not, now what, on an election certificate. Gov. Tim Pawlenty would be a Grade A liar if he did not sign one.)br /br /No, not that.br /br /What does any of this mean on a practical level? Not quite as much as many would crack it up to mean.br /br /First, just because you have 58 Democrats, plus two generally supportive independents, doesn’t guarantee cloture. Cloture is something decided on a bill-by-bill, even amendment-by-amendment basis.br /br /Let’s look at a few key issues.br /br /National healthcare? Party-swapping Arlen Specter might vote against cloture, based on opposition to the bill by unions. (In addition to Hagen or Ben Nelson possibly doing that, of course.)br /br /Waxman-Markey? Stabenow might vote against cloture to protect the Formerly Big Three.br /br /EFCA, if it ever gets to the Senate? Nelson or Hagen are obvious cloture-opposition potential.br /br /Foreign policy? Joementum is a guarantee not only to vote against cloture, but take a neocon stance, on anything in the Middle East.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-6976866218013160926?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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